Jamie's Blessing

Baby Blessings are always special days for me. There's just a special spirit that comes into your home on that day. Jamie's blessing ended up being a little more special for a few reasons, but the main one was her dress. Jessica, my sister, and I had baby girls 10 days apart. We were talking about what blessing dresses we were going to get and Jessica suggested that we make the blessing dresses out of our wedding dress. She and I shared the same wedding dress, so our girls would have a little piece of us on their special days. Thanks to a friend, Tiffany Vought, this amazing idea came to life. I couldn't have asked for anything more perfect. It really made me think, here's the dress that started it all, it brought Jared and I together, and our four kids into our family, and now our family is complete and is ending with the same dress. Full circle.

Jamie

She's just so cute! Love those cheeks. I just can't kiss them enough.

Such a little Man

I think these pictures speak for themselves. (p.s. we bought onsies so that he can't do this anymore, well at least for the moment.)

Jamie and Charlotte

Two of my sisters and I were pregnant at the same time this year. Each one of us had difficulty in our pregnancies but Jessica took the cake. She ended up delivering her baby early and only 10 days after I had Jamie. We figure they were so sad that Jackson, my sister Anna's son, got to come 4 months before them that they had to catch up. And when Jamie came that was all Charlotte could handle and she was not going to be left behind. Jamie was 9lbs 1 oz and Charlotte was a wee 4lbs 9oz. Jessica and I could hardly wait to get these to friends side by side to see the difference and this is the result. Aren't they the cutest! They're gonna be the best of friends and the worst of enemies, if they're anything like their mothers! Now we can't wait for Anna to get here with Jackson, who's tipped the scales and created a new growth chart of his own, to come so we can see all these babies together. So much fun.

Pictures

Here's some more pictures that I liked.

WELCOME JAMIE MIKELL

Our new addition was added on August 1st. Jamie was born at 3:59pm and was 9lbs 1oz, 20inches long, and absolutely perfect. She's so cute and we couldn't be happier. Everything went great and was the fastest delivery I've ever had by far, only about 3 hours. Woo hoo! Guess that's what 2 months of labor does for you. We're so happy to have her home and our family complete! These pictures were taken by a friend of mine in our ward. She's starting a photography business (allysonbosphotograph.blogspot.com) and did these as practice for us. They're amazing! We really lucked out.

GRADY's TWO

On July 24th Grady turned 2. We sort of had a birthday party for him, poor kid. I made him a hot wheels cake and he seemed to like that a lot. We had my Mom and Dad, and my sister and her family over for cake and ice cream. Nothing big, but it was fun. He totally gets opening presents now and is so funny to watch. He gets so excited it's really sweet. Love that boy. Can't believe he's two.